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Price: $109.00
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Sale: $82.00
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Manufacturer: Butterworth-Heinemann
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: National Trust
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Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
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Dewey Decimal Number: 648
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Publication Date: 2005-12-29
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Reading Level: 1041
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Description: The Manual of Housekeeping is essential reading for all those involved in the care of historic houses and their collections. Building on the success of bestselling earlier editions, this greatly expanded manual covers a wider range of subjects in greater detail and includes the very latest thinking on housekeeping theory and practice.
The National Trust gives detailed practical guidance on the care and maintenance of fragile interiors and the decorative fixtures, fittings and objects that contribute so much to their interest. In particular, this book highlights the ways in which preventative conservation measures can help reduce the need for expensive repair at a later date. It also explains how to strike the balance between the care and display of historic interiors and the provision for public access.
Written by internationally renowned specialists and produced by the National Trust, this book brings together many years of practical experience in the care of hundreds of internationally renowned historic houses and their collections.
*Expanded and beautifully illustrated, covering objects not in earlier editions - carriages, mosaics and tiles, natural history collections, plastics
*Explains how to care for objects in a house rather than in a museum environment
*Produced by the National Trust, based on its experience of caring for more than 300 internationally renowned properties
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $38.07
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Manufacturer: Smithsonian
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Konstanze Bachmann
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Publisher: Smithsonian
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069.53
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Publication Date: 1992-04-17
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Reading Level: 160
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Price: $79.95
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Sale: $60.03
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Manufacturer: AltaMira Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Blackaby James R.
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Publisher: AltaMira Press
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Edition: Rep Sub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069.52
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Publication Date: 1995-10-28
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Reading Level: 520
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Description: Chenhall's System for Classifying Man-Made Objects created the first common cataloging language for museums and other historical collections. Now "The Revised Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging" develops Chenhall's ideas to provide updated material so museums can use their collections to the fullest extent. "The Revised Nomenclature" provides a universally accepted classification system with terminology that allows curators, registrars, and catalogers to describe artifacts precisely. It also creates a standard for cataloging so that in-house record keeping is complete and accurate for use by all staff members and the exchange of cultural objects and information between museums is possible on both a national and international scale. This system deals with information, not with methods of recording that information, and enables even the smallest museum's terminology to be in synchronization with the largest metropolitan museum. No museum can afford to be without this book.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $28.55
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Annie E. Coombes
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 301
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Publication Date: 1997-10-20
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Between 1890 and 1918, British colonial expansion in Africa led to the removal of many valuable African artifacts that were subsequently brought to Britain and displayed. This fascinating book analyzes the different and sometimes conflicting representations of African peoples and their material culture in Britain at this time, the justifications for imperial expansion implicit in the displays, and the effects that this had on racial stereotyping and prejudice.
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Price: $37.50
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Sale: $37.68
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Manufacturer: Smithsonian
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Susan M. Pearce
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Publisher: Smithsonian
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069.5
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Publication Date: 1990-07-17
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Reading Level: 223
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Description: Addressing archaeological curators, including museum staffs, the author of this book considers those museums which undertake the preservation, better recording and interpretation of the stored material culture of the past (up to about 1700; after this date the material belongs to the social historians), and of its associated archive. Several themes run through the book: the nature, care and the interpretation of the material culture archive; the principles by which the archive is presented, and the legitimate relationship between the museum archaeologist and their public.
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Price: $21.00
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Sale: $17.00
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Manufacturer: Pantheon
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Lawrence Weschler
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Publisher: Pantheon
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069.5
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Publication Date: 1995-10-10
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Reading Level: 163
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Description: In the non-Aristotelian, non-Euclidean, non-Newtonian space between the walls of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles exist bats that can fly through lead barriers, spore-ingesting pronged ants, elaborate theories of memory, and a host of other off-kilter scientific oddities that challenge the traditional notions of truth and fiction. Lawrence Weschler's book, expanded from an article for Harper's, is, at turns, a tour of the museum, a profile of its founder and curator, David Wilson, and a meditation on the role of imagination and authority in all museums, in science and in life. Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder is an exquisite piece of "magic realist nonfiction" that will prove utterly captivating.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $14.99
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Manufacturer: Smithsonian
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Henderson A
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Publisher: Smithsonian
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Dewey Decimal Number: 031
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Publication Date: 1999-03-17
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Reading Level: 285
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Price: $52.95
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Sale: $44.01
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: C. Fforde
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 930.1
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Publication Date: 2004-08-25
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: The Dead and Their Possessions presents recent research by indigenous and non-indigenous people from museum, archaeological, anthropological, historical, educational, and community backgrounds. The authors examine a wide range of histories, experiences, developments, and consequences of the collecting and/or repatriation of human remains, with contributions from countries such as Uruguay and South Africa, where the issue is only just beginning, to the United States, where repatriation has been law for over a decade.
This book raises fundamental questions about the nature, ethics and practice of scientific enquiry, the ownership of the dead, the politics of the past and the needs of the future. The issues surrounding the collecting and repatriation of human remains are not only of vital importance to many indigenous groups, but also to the future of museum curatorship and the nature and practice of archaeology and anthropology today. This book will be invaluable not only to those involved inthe teaching and research in this field, but also to museum professionals who have received repatriation requests, and to those groups who are facing the challenges of the return of human remains and cultural objects to their own communities.
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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $29.99
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dean E. Arnold
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 930.1
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Publication Date: 1988-06-24
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Reading Level: 284
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Description: This much-praised book aims to develop a theory of ceramics which will elucidate the complex relationship between ceramics and culture and society. Drawing upon the theoretical perspectives of systems theory, cybernetics and cultural ecology, Dr Arnold develops cross-cultural generalizations to explain the origins and evolution of the craft of pottery making. These processes are organized into a series of feedback mechanisms which limit or stimulate the initial production of pottery and its transition from a part-time to a full-time specialized activity. The author provides extensive ethnographic documentation, taken from a wide-ranging synthesis of the available literature and employing many data from his own fieldwork in Peru, Guatemala and Mexico, to illustrate the existence of these feedback relationships in societies around the world. Each mechanism is viewed, not as a relationship which exists in a few of the world's cultures, but as a universal generalization often based on some unique physical or chemical aspect of the pottery itself. Ceramic theory and cultural process is an innovative approach to the archaeological interpretation of ceramics which significantly extends our understanding of the social, cultural and environmental processes of ceramic production.
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Price: $60.00
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Sale: $50.00
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Sherry Butcher-Younghans
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 703
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Publication Date: 1996-02-08
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Reading Level: 280
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Description: Historic house museums can be found in nearly every city in the United States and Canada. These are the homes of the earliest settlers, statesmen, frontiersmen, great writers, artists, architects, and industrial magnates. These are the places, carefully saved and preserved, that represent a cultural heritage. Despite their popularity, it is not uncommon to find museums that are in poor repair, their collections neglected and their staffs grossly overworked. Many are run by well-meaning and hard-working volunteers who have little or no professional training. Often they survive on shoestring budgets and are able to present only limited programs. Serving both as a hands-on guide and reference, this book examines these problems, offering practical advice and solutions which can be easily implemented. Its useful "lessons" include governance, where to find help, care of collections, conservation, security, and interpretation--all designed to increase the professionalism of the historic house museum.
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